Trusted Silicon Stratus (TSS) Workshop

Abstract : Nimbis Services facilitated, organized and delivered a requirements workshop for the development of a private cloud computing infrastructure (Trusted Silicon Stratus or TSS) for trusted semiconductor design-release-manufacturing for the Department of Defense. The workshop was hosted at the IBM corporate offices in Bethesda, MD on September 9-10, 2010. Fifty-seven workshop attendees represented twenty six DOD organizations and private companies from across the Aerospace & Defense (A&D) industry. The workshop was successful in generating the interest, need, and requirements for the development of the TSS. During the Trusted Foundry Workshop in Burlington Vermont, sponsored by the NSA Trusted Access Program Office (TAPO), development of the TSS Demonstration Cloud received endoresement from TAPO.